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  1. Hardy Parkerson

    Answer not a fool according to this own folly, lest thou be like unto him. THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES

  2. Hardy Parkerson

    My mother taught me the Jewish Scripture which says, “Answer not a fool, according to his own folly, lest thou be like unto him.” S/Hardy Parkerson

  3. Hardy Parkerson

    How true, how true! Answer not a fool according to his own folly, lest thou be like unto him.

  4. Hardy Parkerson

    Thomas Wolfe, from YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN – So, then, to every man his chance-to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity-to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him-this, seeker, is the promise of America.

  5. Hardy Parkerson

    Once again, I’ll quote the Jewish Scriptures: “Answer not a fool acording to his own folly, lest thou be like unto him.”

  6. Hardy Parkerson

    “Pick out what you want in life, pay the price and take it!” -Thomas Wolfe, from YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN. Of course, Emerson had said the same thing in his eassay “Compensation”.

  7. Hardy Parkerson

    Mitch Franklin was right. A Civil Code shold be no larger than would fit in a man’s hip pocket or a woman’s purse. Comments should not even be allowed. Now our LOUISIANA CIVIL “CODE” is two giagantic volumes, weighing over ten pounds. Again, Mitch was right. When I am elected governor, I am going to return Louisiana to Napoleonic Law. s/Hardy Parkerson

  8. Hardy Parkerson

    Mitch Franklin was right. A Civil Code should be no larger than would fit in a man’s hip pocket or a woman’s purse. Comments should not even be allowed. Now our LOUISIANA CIVIL “CODE” is two giagantic volumes, weighing over ten pounds. Again, Mitch was right. When I am elected governor, I am going to return Louisiana to Napoleonic Law. s/Hardy Parkerson

  9. Hardy Parkerson

    Jim Brown is too high class for this web-site (Poli5icsla.com). Frankly, I suspect he owns it, but I do not know that for a fact. But he is too high class for most all of the people that post (t)here. Even though he got taken down, it was only because he would not lie on his friend Edwin W. Edwards; and, frankly, Jim Brown is the greatest person, other than my son that is now serving on the ground in Iraq, that I have known in my adult lifetime; and I have known some great people. Anyway, I do plan to be elected governor; and as governor I plan to use my influence and power to get the new Democratic President, probably Hillary Clinton, to grant an immediate and full pardon to Jim Brown, and I expect him to succeed me as governor of Louisiana; for I do not plan to run for re-election. All I will need is one four-year term to turn this state upside down and clean it up and run the criminals out of it who own it now, like the Gambling Industry. Louisiana has just sold out to Organized Gambling, sold its soul to gambling; especially Lake Charles. Even the so-called “Christians” who have led our city have in recent years sold sold the soul of our city out to Organized Gambling. There is more to it all than this, but this is something to think about. Even the Japs won’t open a factory in Louisiana, because it is too trashy. I am going to clean this state up!

    Sincerely,

    Hardy Parkerson, Atty.
    Ronald Reagan Candidate for Governor LA – 2007

  10. Hardy Parkerson

    I think Mayor Wasington of Westlake was murdered; and why D.A. John DeRosier chose to slap the Blacks in the face after they were responsible for electing him, I just don’t know.

  11. Charles Fottti

    Your comment has been forwarded to the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney John F. DeRosier.

    Your comments are appreciated.

  12. Charles Fottti

    Hey Hardy, you are obviously prejudice and paranoia against all law enforcement agencies ????????????????

  13. Charles Fottti

    are you talking about the “Thifty Nichol” ? or the other butt wipe, caqlled the “American Press” or the New York Times.

  14. Charles Fottti

    Hardy, ain’t no state sales tax on food. Please don’t make false and hollow promises to the masses hoping that they are stupid and will fall for it. You are too smart for that.

  15. Hardy Parkerson

    Answer not a fool according to his own folly, lest thou be like unto him. JEWISH SCRIPTURES

  16. Hardy Parkerson

    A goat on a hill by a brook
    Saw an old movie film and partook.
    “Was it good?” asked his mate.
    Said the goat, “Second rate.
    Not nearly as good as the book.

  17. Hardy Parkerson

    One Sunday Morning in May
    “The ushers now will please come up!
    Brother Frank, please ask the Lord
    To bless the off’ring that we give
    And the messenger of the Word.”

    “All Things Are Thine,” the choir sang,
    As they passed the off’ring plate;
    And the preacher said, as he broke the bread,
    “Thus the Disciples ate.”

    The piano played, it sounded fine;
    The guitar twanged, the drums kept time;
    The people prayed, the choir sang,
    One Sunday morning in early May.

    They took communion on their knees,
    The altars were all filled;
    A lady wept as the preacher prayed
    And told of Golgotha’s hill.

    And that’s the way it was at church
    One Sunday morning in May.

    Hardy Parkerson
    Copyright ©2007 Hardy Parkerson

  18. Tubby Lyons

    Harley, John Brown has retired from the insurance industry. He did a great job when he was inside the Commissioner of Insurance Office under Sherman Bernard. Nice hearing from you again, Harley!

  19. Frank

    John Brown was the offical extortionist at the Louisiana Department of Insurance, hired by Sherman Bernard.

  20. Jilil Betar

    The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act by a vote of 283 to 144.

  21. Hardy Parkerson

    I only quoted what Billy Miller sent to me on the Internet. I did not say I agree with him. Why the ad hominem attack! Discuss the issues, not personalities! And the Jews ARE God’s chosen people; and God has said he will bless those who bless the Jews and curse those who curse the Jews. That is why the United States has always prospered, for they have blessed the Jews. But the Muslims are committed to murdering the Jews, and Christians as well. No, I am not a racist, just a Christian who believes in the JEWISH SCRIPTURES. There is more to it all than this, but this is something to think about. It was not Jews who pulled off 9-11, nor Iraqis. It was Saudi Arabian Mulsims. Yet Bush attacked and wiped out Iraq in retaliation. Why? I wonder.

    Sincerely,

    Hardy Parkerson, Atty.
    Ronald Reagqan Democratic Pro-Jewish Candidate for Governor of LA – 2007

  22. Hardy Parkerson

    It Happened In New Orleans.
    – Gen. Wm. Westmoreland

    From Wikipedia on Gen. Wm. Westmoreland

    In the early 1980s I saw a large man in a business suit standing beside a taxi-cab on Canal Street in New Orleans in front of the Marriot Hotel. I asked him if I and my traveling companion could share a cab with him to the Airport. He took one look at my traveling companion who was a beautiful woman and promptly said, “Jump in!” So she and I both got into the back seat of the cab and waited for the tall, impressive-looking man to get in himself. I noticed that many likewise impressive looking people were shaking his hand and seeing him off from in front of the Marriot on Canal Street; and when he finally got into the cab, he got into the passenger side of the front seat of the cab. As the cab pulled out, he reached over the back of the front seat and offered his hand and said, “I am General William Westmoreland.”
    As the cab continued to the airport, in order to keep him talking I said, “Sir, you mean you don’t travel with body guards?” He abruptly said, “No and I don’t want any!”
    Still to keep him talking, I said, “Sir, isn’t it wonderful that Haig has just been appointed Secretary of State?” to which he gruffly responded, “Yeah! Yeah! Haig was one of my field commanders in Viet Nam. Nixon called him back to Washington and promoted him from the rank of Colonel to Four Star General in the matter of about two years. Made a lot of the career Army officers angry!” I knew I had said the wrong thing.
    Next I said, “Sir, I just finished reading Nguyen Kao Ky’s book,” to which he again gruffly responded, “Yeah! Yeah! That was a bunch of baloney! He made the Diem Family look bad. Those were fine people!” Again, I knew I had said the wrong thing.
    He then asked me, “Have you read my book?” To which I responded that I did not know he had written one. I asked him the title of it and he told me that the title of it was A SOLDIER REPORTS. To which I told him that I would have to get it and read it. He said, “Give me your card, and I will send you a copy! It will be the paper-back edition. Now if you want the hard-back edition, you will have to buy it yourself at the local bookstore.” I gave him my card, and sure enough, he sent me an autographed paperback copy of his book.
    To keep him talking, I asked him, “Sir, who were some of the great leaders that you have known and dealt with during your career?” He started off by telling me that it was General John J. Pershing had been the one who pinned his second lieutenant bar on him. Then he talked about President Nixon. He said that he had dealt with President Nixon during the Viet Nam War, and–exact words–“If Nixon had listened to me, we would have won that war!”
    I told him that I was a Lieutenant in the Louisiana Army National Guard, and he wanted to know the name of my unit, for he wanted to mention it when he autographed the book he was to send to me.
    Then, again, to keep him talking, I said, “We have a general from Lake Charles, General Leonard Pauley.” To which he promptly said, “Yes, I know Pauley!” Then he said, “You had another one from Lake Charles, General Eddleman.” He probably called his first name, I don’t recall. Since I had never heard of General Eddleman before, when I got back to Lake Charles, I mentioned this General Eddleman to my wife’s grand-mother who was born in 1904 and had lived in Lake Charles most all of her adult life; and she advised me that she remembered him well. (A GOOGLE search shows the grave marker of a General Clyde David Eddleman, who is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.) I did my best to keep him talking, and I did a pretty good job of it; but I do not recall much more that he said.
    When we got to the airport, he would not let me pay the fare for the cab for the three of us, insisting that he pay it himself, which he did. Kinda hard to argue with a Four Star General! When he sent me the autographed paper-back edition of his book, he had a nice letter with it in which he referred to my traveling companion as “your lovely wife.” He had noticed too, for she was indeed a beautiful woman. I found it amazing, and my friend did too, that ones so insignificant as us, particularly while we both were still in our 30’s, would have such an interesting experience and be able to ride along and talk with such a great American military leader. That was an experience that I shall never forget. When I got home, I went across the street from my house to visit with my neighbor who was a ranking Army officer and Viet Nam veteran to tell him about this experience; and when I told him about saying to General Westmoreland, “Sir, isn’t it great that Haig has been appointed Secretary of State?” before I could even report what General Westmoreland had responded, my neighbor, the ranking Army officer, immediately responded, “Boy, that was the wrong thing to have said!” To which I immediately responded, “And so I promptly learned!”
    This is a true story, as true as my memory recalls it these twenty-five or so years later.
    -Hardy Parkerson, Atty. – Lake Charles, LA —The preceding unsigned comment was added (to Wikipedia) by Hardy Parkerson (talk • contribs) 01:46, March 20, 2006 (UTC)

  23. Grand Inquisitor

    When will you have Hardy Parkerson on the show, or is he not serious enough a candidate to give air time to?

  24. Hardy Parkerson

    Ode to Eddie Carmouche

    Great men are hard to get to know today,
    And few great men we meet along the way;
    But there was one great man whom I once knew:
    Eddie Carmouche, who lived on Contraband Bayou.

    He hailed from humble stock and town,
    And he was known the whole world ’round.
    Spent his childhood days on country farms,
    And as a youth answered the call to arms.

    An officer and a gentleman, and a man of means,
    He gave rides to little children in his big limousine;
    A great lawyer and friend of the President,
    He made an impression wherever he went.

    And ‘though he’s gone on to his reward,
    His body now rests in Sallier Graveyard.

    Hardy Parkerson
    Copyright ©2007 Hardy Parkerson

  25. G. Noe-McClendon

    I’ve been with Eddie Carmouche in his yellow limo.

    I’ve known Eddie and Virginia Carmouche in the early 60’s.

    Virginia ran for public office a couple times back in those early years.

    They were both good lawyers.

  26. Cullen Liskow

    Edward Moss Carmouche
    A counrty boy?

    What humble stock and town ?
    What country farms? Where?

  27. Cullen Liskow

    Edward M. Carmouche was a city boy from Lake Charles. He came from an old Lake Charles pioneer family. The Moss family, with a street named for his Moss family.

    They were not rich, but comfortable for people at that time. Eddie Moss Carmarche attended Central and Lake Charles High School. While in school he delivered newspapers. One of his stops on his newspaper route, was one Matilda Gidding Gray.

    Mr. Gray liked Eddie a lot and promised he if would go to college and law school she would hire him. He did, and she did.

    Eddie started a Lake Charles law practice with a partner and future wife by the name Virginia Martin of Thibodaux, Louisiana.

    Thank you for reminding of Eddie Carmouche.

  28. Cullen Liskow

    And did you know that Eddie
    served as the U.S. Magistrate for the Western District of Louisiana from 1952-1955, and as the Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana from 1955 to 1984.
    Being appointed by Jack P F Gremillion, Sr.

  29. Grand Inquisitor

    Will you ever have Hardy Parkerson on the show, or is he too big of a joke to give serious air time to?

  30. Norris

    The problem is not to many laws.

    The problem is finding good lawyers thay can keep up with the new laws.